Gerrit Rietveld Academie: Oceanic imaginaries

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During the festive 10th edition, the Best, Most Urgent and Most Surprising works were awarded by the Cherry Pickers, a group of students from the participating academies.

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How can we liquefy our ways of being? How can we think from and with the ocean? Students from Gerrit Rietveld Academy will take you on a journey, investigating the uncertainty, unlimitedness and power of both our being and the ocean.

The topic of Oceanic imaginaries has been taken aboard as a starting point to develop a variety of experimental films in the context of this year’s Research Lab. Through both sound and visuals, the oceans meditative yet disruptive hallucinations are revisited. The sometimes enigmatic depth of ambient &amp; experimental &amp; techno soundscapes relating to the underwater acoustic world brings the viewer (and listener) into other dimensions. We hear, rather than see the blue mind, describing a meditative state usually experienced underwater. Fluid identities The ocean can also be experienced as a transformative and immersive space: a space of effect and metamorphosis in which bodies and identities become fluid, and in which human and non-human entities meet. Here the concept swirls around anthropocentrism and its strong impact both on humanity and the ocean. Or it becomes a personal video essay reflecting on the lawlessness of the ocean, what it attracts and what it affords.One of the works is an installation: Layers/Layer. It can be experienced in the 'Waterfront'The following students participated: Albert Rosager &amp; Ada Jochimsen, Anna Sieberns, Astrid Ardagh, Athena Potamianos, Cecily Grant, Colin Oord, Dick Alle Huppes, Dimme van Harten, Félicie Vitrai, Greta Galiauskaite, Katya Marchenko &amp; Didi van der Putte, Leo Mokkala, Lucie Dudová, Maïa Taïeb, Martina Laruffa, Noa Bar Orian, Pam Sikkink, Yana Khazanovich, Yi Wang &amp; Irene Ruigrok van der Werve. Guided by Anja Masling, Margriet Kruyver, Mariken Overdijk and Martin Grootenboer.

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Seven interdisciplinary artist who are working, around poetry, sculpture, documentary, photography, sound, text, film and performance. The colonial effect on the contemporary self. How to challenge the boundaries of post-pornographic representation and find visual codes for queer sensualities that expand the spectrum of human desire and sexuality. Engaging Black experimentalism.

The students study at Blacker Blackness, a temporary Master by Simone Zeefuik, the Fine Art department by Maxine Kopsa, and Ecology of Transformation, a temporary Master by Camille Barton. The programme is curated by Judith Leysner. Lunar New Year (S*an D. Henry-Smith, 2021, 20') This film revisits the unraveling of a midwinter’s day in New York City. Summoning the presence of friends and collaborators on film and in spirit, Henry-Smith shifts effortlessly between sonic and visual languages in their work–at times drawing from elements of modern portraiture and slice-of-life documentation. Ancestral Download (Jerrold Saija, 2021, 6') ‘How did you feel that day?’ I asked my grandfather. Our attention joined and we opened a window to past memories together - many layers in a state of erosion. Remaining pictures merged and a common knowing emerged. How does one connect to those ancestral memories that cannot be found in texts or archives? Avoidant of the written word, I open explorations into different ways of knowing in attempts to repair the discontinued bonds with my ancestors. How can I open myself? Perhaps it can start with a simple question? Fragmented Delicacies (Elio J Carranza, 2021, 9') Fragmented Delicacies is a queer-feminist, experimental post porn which aims to challenge the boundaries of post-pornographic representation and find visual codes for queer sensualities that expand the spectrum of human desire and sexuality. I have experimented with distancing myself from the interaction of human bodies and the fixation on eroticized body in post porn films. A Prayer to Liminality (Anne Jesuina Tobias de Andrade, 2021, 5') What does it mean to decolonize? This film seeks to re-center the body as a site of knowledge, spirituality and trust in the midst of the workings white ‘supremacy’ culture. It draws parallels between the human-made patterns in the soil and the imposed identities on black and brown and female bodies in a neo-colonial capitalist patriarchal system. It’s an investigation of the gaze of modernity and the suppressing ways in which it makes things seen and valuable, annihilating others. Painted Eyes (Zwaantje Kurpershoek, 2021, 5') A video showing four persons practicing their hobbies while wearing painted manga eyes. Embodied TRANSformation&lt;-&gt; TRANSformation Embodied (Sean-Claude Neufville, 2021) An installation used as a platform for Transgendered people to testify, be witnessed and claim the knowing mined from their lived trans experience and/or their transition, through the reclaiming and reconnection with their bodies. The platform installation showcases 3 Transmasculine people responding to 6 questions. Their testimonies can take on any storytelling artistic approach. (The installation can be experienced in the 'IJLounge') The Passage (Siomara van Bochove, 2021, 10') Experimental moving image that explores a diasporic experience and the notion of being in between worlds, by remixing and manipulating personal recordings and (found) footage from the past that still speak to the present.

Sandberg Institute: Outside-In

Inspired by the lectures of sociologists Johan Huizinga and Rogers Caillois, University of Amsterdam students offer us  ‘Playing Film’. The programmw aims to find one of the most fundamental elements of creativity, film and art: play and playfulness.

There’s something all the films in this programme have in common: they'll disconnect you for a while from everything else as you focus on one thing only – playing. The passive audience become active players in this engaging programme and by finding patterns in randomness, the films are much more connected than expected at first sight. Because play is everywhere. It is toying with absurdity and parody, cleverly playing with film language, and finding rhythm, movement and sense in chaos. Cheering for marble Play is about using rules and breaking them, and so does this programme. From crafting a Rubik’s cube to solving a crossword to cheering for a marble, our curated films are proof that ever since the dawn of cinema we can’t help but to play with whatever gets into our hands. So please don't bring popcorn, but get out of the comfortable chair and engage with your curious mind in this playful and (sometimes) competitive screening! Warning: this programme contains films with flashy images.

University of Amsterdam: Playing Film

Students from the academies taking part in the Research Labs get to grips with work by students from the audio-visual departments of other art academies and universities. The winner gets to compile their very own evening in Eye.

This is going to be a long day in Eye. From ten in the morning until ten in the evening, new talent from the audio-visual courses will be allocated space to show their work. A student jury of 'Cherry Pickers' will award a 'Cherries' for best curated program, the most surprising work, the most urgent work, and a 'Wild Cherry'.
Each academy will make an hour-long presentation; the winning film will be screened in one of the filmmuseum’s state-of-the-art cinemas. 
But that’s not all: later in the year, one of the winners gets to compile an evening as part of the <a href="http://www.eyefilm.nl/en/badlands" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Badlands series</a> where new film talent presents itself through debut films, discussions and films selected by inspirational makers.

Gerrit Rietveld Academie: Oceanic imaginaries

Research Labs 2022

How can we liquefy our ways of being? How can we think from and with the ocean? Students from Gerrit Rietveld Academy will take you on a journey, investigating the uncertainty, unlimitedness and power of both our being and the ocean.

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